Abstract: (APS)
A new method to incorporate the Pauli principle into the double folding approach to the nucleus-nucleus potential is proposed. The description of the exchange terms at the level of the quasiclassical one-body density matrix is used. It is shown that in order to take into account the Pauli blocking properly, a redefinition of the density matrices of the free isolated nuclei must be done. A solution to the self-consistent incorporation of the Pauli blocking effects in the mean-field nucleus-nucleus potential is obtained in the Thomas-Fermi approximation.